Agence France-Presse: SCIENTISTS say they are haunted by the failure to convey to the world just how close Earth is to climate catastrophe. Top researchers who gathered in Copenhagen for a climate change conference said they were worried that people could not psychologically deal with the enormity of the problem and were reverting to doing nothing. French glaciologist Claude Lorius, one of the first scientists to publish in 1987 evidence that global warming was real, said he despaired of getting the …